No. XIV. 
REMARKS ON " JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE IN INDIA." 
\When the Printer had nearly finished this Appendix, a friend communi- 
cated to me a paragraph transcribed from the Journal of a Residence 
in India, by Miss Maria Graham, page 176. This lady, it seems, 
spent a few days at Cape-town, in her way to India, and with no other 
data than flimsy reports, she is bold enough to offer to the public the 
most g7vss misrepresentations qf the laborious missionaries in South 
Africa. Her words are these :] 
MOST of the African missionaries, when they go 
into the interior, collect a tribe of savages round them, 
who are willing to be baptized, and to pray and sing 
psalms_, as long as the missionaries' store of brandy lasts; but 
when that is done, they return to their native habits, only 
more wretched from the artificial wants created by a partial 
acquaintance with Europeans. The Moravians, on the con- 
trary, instruct their proselytes to sow corn, to rear domestic 
animals, and to manufacture articles of various kinds, which 
are brought to Cape-town and sold; and with the produce, 
coarse stuffs for clothing, and raw materials for the manu- 
factures are bought. Having thus laid a foundation for under- 
standing the necessity of moral regulation, by introducing the 
comforts of society, the Moravians preach Christianity, with 
an incalculable advantage over those blind enthusiasts, who, 
neglecting to prepare their converts for the belief of real 
Christianity, by shewing them the advantages to be derived 
from the practice it enjoins, address themselves to their 
passions and their credulity, and bribe them into baptism, 
only to leave them in a worse state than that in which they 
found them." Joimial of a Residence in India, p. 176. 
The foregoing pages of this work, together with the ob- 
servations on Lichtenstein's travels, afford so full a refutation 
of Miss Graham's slanders, as to render further remarks un- 
necessary. The reader will perceive by what has been said 
of Bethelsdorp, Griqua-town and other places, that the 
Missionaries are anxious to promote the civilization of the 
natives, that they have succeeded, in various instances, to as 
